" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... "Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."

Thursday, December 14, 2017

The social networking giant said the move was in response to pressure fromgovernments and policy makers for greater visibility into sales made intheir countries (AFP Photo/LOIC VENANCE)

New York
(AFP) - Facebook, in a bow to transparency, has announced it plans to declare
certain ad revenues in the country where they are made and not in Ireland,
where it has a greater tax advantage.

The social
networking giant said the move was in response to pressure from governments and
policy makers for greater visibility into sales made in their countries.

"In
simple terms, this means that advertising revenue supported by our local teams
will no longer be recorded by our international headquarters in Dublin, but
will instead be recorded by our local company in that country," Dave
Wehner, Facebook's chief financial officer, said in a statement released
Tuesday.

He said the
changes in tax reporting would be made by mid-2019 in countries where Facebook
has an office supporting advertisers.

Rules for
corporate taxes, as conceived for traditional economic activity, are based on
the principle of "permanent establishment".

To be
taxed, a company must have a physical presence in a country, but digital
enterprises can offer their services over the Internet from a country of their
choice, like Ireland, which offers Facebook tax advantages.

Facebook's
taxes on ad revenues in 2015 were minimal in France and Germany, but amounted
to nearly 7.9 billion euros in Ireland, where there are fewer Facebook
accounts.

Dutch
children have an increased risk of becoming short-sighted because they spend
more time on computer screens and less time playing outdoors, ophthalmic
professor Caroline Klaver says in Wednesday’s NRC.

Half of the people in Europe
in their 20s wear glasses or have contact lenses, Klaver says. And people who
have glasses of -6 or more at a young age have a one in three risk of
developing serious sight problems or even going blind, she told the paper.

Myopia develops when the eyeball grows too long, relative to the focusing power
of the cornea and lens of the eye.

Klaver says short-sightedness is the biggest
cause of blindness and that spending long times indoors reading or behind a
screen increases the risk.

‘We have to ensure that far fewer children develop
short-sightedness by making sure they are outside for two hours a day,’ she
said. ‘That exposes them to a substance [dopamine] which brakes the growth.’
Schools in particular should ensure children have an hour outdoors.

Research by
the Erasmus medical centre in Rotterdam shows that 2.4% of six-year-olds are
short sighted. They were also more likely to have a shortage of vitamin D, to
be overweight and not to play outside.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Staff vacancies at Dutch web
shops generally require better levels of education than at traditional high
street retailers, according to research by state jobs agency UWV involving five
of the Netherlands’ biggest online shops.

Two-thirds of the vacancies on offer
at the web shops were for people with high-end trade or college qualifications,
compared with one-third of the jobs available at ordinary retailers.

In
particular web retailers are trying to recruit administrative staff and IT
specialists such as data analysts and developers, the UWV said.

In addition,
web shops find it hard to recruit sufficient low-skilled logistics staff, the
UWV said. This is partly down to the sector’s poor image with heavy physical
work and irregular hours.

The UWV said the number of people working for online
retailers has risen from 38,000 to
62,000 over the past four years.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Bitcoin surged after its debut on a major global exchange (AFP Photo/Justin TALLIS)

New York
(AFP) - Bitcoin surged past $18,000 after making its debut on a major global
exchange but was trading lower on Monday, highlighting the volatility of the
controversial digital currency that has some investors excited but others
nervous.

Trading on
a futures contract began at 6:00 pm (2300 GMT) on the Chicago board options
exchange (Cboe) at a price of $15,000.

Heavy
traffic made the Cboe website inaccessible in the first 20 minutes, but it said
that "trading runs on very separate systems and was totally unaffected by
the website issues."

Around 1000
GMT on Monday, bitcoin was trading at $17,600 per unit for the futures contract
expiring on January 17 after reaching a high of $18,850, according to Cboe's
website, meaning it exceeded the highest value reached on alternative
non-regulated internet platforms.

Futures
expiring on February 14 and March 14 were higher, trading at $19,140 and $19,100
respectively at the same time on Monday.

A futures
contract is a financial product that allows investors to bet on whether the
currency's price will rise or fall.

Bob
Fitzsimmons, a futures manager at Wedbush Securities, described the opening as
"quiet and steady," as Cboe data showed around a thousand trades were
made in the first two hours.

The Cboe
debut is expected to be followed a week later by a rival listing on Chicago
Mercantile Exchange.

It marks
the first opportunity for professional traders to invest in bitcoin on a
traditional platform, even as some steer away because of a lack of regulations
surrounding the currency.

"It
gives it legitimacy. It recognizes that it's an asset you can trade," said
Nick Colas, of Data Trek research.

Among those
cheering the launch are the Winklevoss twins, who have been called the first
bitcoin billionaires. Critics include financial commentator Jim Cramer, who
warns that prices could tumble once the new trading venues open the door to
"short sellers," who bet on downward moves in assets.

The two
launches were made possible after a key US regulator, the Commodities and
Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), gave the green light to the exchanges on
December 1, while warning "of the potentially high level of volatility and
risk in trading these contracts."

Anticipation
of the first mainstream listings for the digital currency has been a catalyst
for a sharp price increase in recent weeks. Bitcoin opened 2017 at around
$1,000, surged past $10,000 for the first time last month and soared as high as
$16,777 on Thursday before retreating somewhat.

Plenty of
key figures in and around markets are taking a cautious approach to

bitcoin,
which has no central bank backing it, and no legal exchange rate (AFP

Photo/PHILIPPE LOPEZ)

Going
mainstream

The actual
opening of the Cboe market, an electronic trading venue, was a low-key affair,
lacking the pomp of an initial public offering, which is often marked by the
new entrant ringing the bell of the New York Stock Exchange.

The embrace
by mainstream exchanges of bitcoin futures marks a sea change from the days when
the digital currency was associated with drug dealing and other illicit
activities.

The Cboe
said it has taken precautions to address wild fluctuations: trading will be
suspended for two minutes if bitcoin prices go up or down 10 percent, for
instance.

"We
are committed to continue to work closely with the CFTC to monitor trading and
foster the growth of a transparent, liquid and fair bitcoin futures
market," the Cboe said.

Still,
plenty of key figures in and around markets are taking a cautious approach to
bitcoin, which has no central bank backing it, and no legal exchange rate.

The Futures
Industry Association, which includes some of the world's biggest derivatives
brokerages, criticized the CFTC's move in a letter to the regulator, saying
contracts are being rushed through without properly weighing the risks.

"A
more thorough and considered process would have allowed for a robust public
discussion among clearing member firms, exchanges and clearing houses,"
the association said.

Several
leading financial heavyweights are still studying bitcoin and not serving as
financial intermediaries. This group includes JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America
Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Societe Generale, said
people close to the matter.

Of the
larger banks, only Goldman Sachs and ABN Amro are serving as intermediaries for
the trades. That means most of the terrain will be dominated by smaller
entities that are typically requiring larger than usual margin requirements --
funds set aside as collateral in case of losses.

The Cboe,
for its part, sought to reassure investors.

"We
are committed to continue to work closely with the CFTC to monitor trading and
foster the growth of a transparent, liquid and fair bitcoin futures market,"
it said in a statement.

Wedbush
Securities has lifted its margin requirements and is only permitting trades
from clients on a "selected" basis, said Fitzsimmons.

"We
are commissioning only the select clients who have experience in
bitcoins," he said.

"Our
risk systems are ready and we have made sure we have our customers and firm
protected by increased margins and increased scrutiny."

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Almost 40% of wifi connections in Dutch inner cities are poor
because so many networks are competing with each other, according to a new
report by the government’s telecoms agency.

Two years ago, 27% of connections
could be described as poor, the agency is quoted as saying by the NRC.

Most
domestic wifi services use the overcrowded 2.4 GHz bandwidth, which also hosts
bluetooth appliances such as doorbells. In addition, the spectrum is becoming
increasingly busy due to the popularity of live streaming.

The agency measured
the quality of wifi connections in some 200 places. ‘In places where reception
was bad, it is now worse,’ said spokesman Paul Wijninga in the NRC.

The problem
is particularly acute in older houses – newer homes are better insulated
against interference but the use of concrete also means they need to use more
amplifiers to strengthen the signal away from the router.

The agency recommends
people affected by poor reception to the less congested 5 GHz networks.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Internet providers in the Netherlands have been told they
must be more accurate about the speed of internet connections they are selling
from January 1 next year.

In addition, providers may no longer advertise
maximum speeds which are not actually achievable in practice, the Dutch
competition and markets regulator ACM said on Monday.

The maximum and minimum
upload and download times for fixed internet must be included in contracts and
providers will also have to commit to a ‘normally available’ speed, which must
be reached in eight of 10 times over a week. Estimated speeds will be
acceptable for mobile internet.

The rule will first be applied to new contracts
but from March will have to be included in all contracts for both the domestic
and consumer market. The new rules stem from European legislation on net
neutrality.

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Staffing agency
giant Randstad is relocating dozens of smaller branches in the Netherlands from
prime locations to industrial estates, in a push to go largely digital.

From
2018, the Randstad branches in city centres will be limited to a number of
‘flagship stores’ in around 10 big cities. None of the other branches will
close. Instead they will move to a new address, a Randstad spokesperson told
the Volkskrant.

The move will result in annual savings for the company of
around €90 to €100m.

In an interview with the Financieele Dagblad, Reiant
Mulder, the director in charge of Dutch operations, said business was no longer
reliant on people walking in from the street. ‘99% of searches for a new job
start online. That includes people over the age of 50. The tempo in which
people have switched to digital has taken us by surprise,’ he told the paper.

Randstad is directing most of the freed up budget towards new technologies
which will increase the chance of finding the right person for job. ‘Algorithms
are telling us: this request for a worker matches this candidate,’ Mulder is
quoted as saying. The method is already
used for low-skilled jobs but will now also be employed to place the highly
skilled.

The move does not mean any of the intermediaries who mediate between
candidate and company, will be fired. They will be given a role in coaching and
their number will be reduced as people leave the company, the paper writes.

According to the Volkskrant, Randstad is anxious not to lose face-to-face
contact with its clients. It quotes the company’s last annual report as saying
that ‘57% of candidates thinks the hiring process is too automated, impersonal
and only focused on transactions. We want to keep the personal connection where
this is needed.’

But clients will have to travel further for an interview. ‘We
are choosing sites which are easily reached by public transport,’ the
spokesperson told the Volkskrant.

Saturday, November 18, 2017

A group of Dutch YouTube vloggers
will now report clearly when content is advertised, as part of a voluntary code
they launched on Friday.

De Social Code – developed ‘for and by YouTubers’ – has
four simple guidelines on making it clear when videos are sponsored, involve
product placement or free samples, or are entirely independent content.

Last
year the Dutch Media Authority announced that it wanted to ban illicit
advertising in vlogs, especially when aimed at children, reported RTL
broadcaster at the time.

Laws regulating online content in the same way as
television and radio are being developed, according to the vloggers who
developed the new code in coordination with the Dutch Media Authority.

People
who have signed up already include Teske de Schepper (Teske), Dylan Haegens,
Djamila (Meisje Djamila), Rutger Vink (Furtjuh) and Christiaan Heinen
(Prankster), according to ANP.

‘These YouTubers are demonstrating through this
form of self-regulation that they feel a sense of responsibility to their
viewers’, Dutch Media Authority chairman Madeleine de Cock Buning told ANP.

The biggest filter of humanity, the one that keeps Humans from actual truth, believe it or not, is called knowledge. We speak of that which humanity perceives currently as knowledge. That which you do not know is, therefore, future knowledge. Now, every single scientist understands the difference - every single one - for they know what is coming is going to teach them what they don't know yet. This is part of the scientific process. Even so, they take what they know, or think they know, and completely let it temper the experiments for what they don't know. They base the future on what they know or believe, even though they know better!

A medical doctor will look in the past and he'll remember being taught about a time when humans would report to the barbershop for healing. That's when they would actually bleed people for healing. By the way, that's the reason for the barber pole having the red stripe on it - it's the tradition of barbers doing the bleeding. So back then, you went to get healed in the barbershop by being bled! This, of course, led to many deaths because there was no understanding of germs, sterilization or today's common sense. Doctors know this, and they laugh at how far you all have come from this. So doctors absolutely know that what is coming will someday be actually laughable, yet they are also absolutely and completely closed to what it might be. They just think it will be an advancement of what they currently know.….”

“.. Medicine - Where It's Going

I want to show you some other areas to consider. There are several categories that we'd like to talk about, but they're not in a specific order except for the last one. So let's talk about medicine. What is future medicine going to look like?

The most elegant predictions of medicine fall short of what's really coming. What you have today is a high-tech approach to designer chemistry. Now, since the body is made up of chemistry, it makes sense to look at this chemistry and work with it. It makes total sense to discover how it reacts to disease and then design cures with more chemistry. It's absolutely normal what you have done, but it's going to reach an end very soon. Because the future of medicine is physics, dear ones, not chemistry.

You're going to start understanding and developing new medical physics. You will discover that medi-physics is going to literally speak to cellular structure and give it instructions, without one chemical involved. There's always a reaction to chemistry, isn't there? There's always a side effect. When you push one thing, something else reacts, doesn't it? How do you like it so far? Your most elegant chemical designs, the ones that are helping with the worst diseases on the planet, all have side effects - and some of those side effects are death! I say to you, how do you like it so far?

Does it really seem elegant to you? Or perhaps it's just a more sophisticated way of bleeding in the barbershop? Dear ones, that's how you're going to look at it someday! You're going to slap your heads and say, "Remember the day when we did everything with chemistry and drugs?"

Right now, these kinds of changes have already started in several areas. There are discoveries being made that are healing some of the most heart-breaking diseases you have. I reveal one, because it's not a secret. I will always give you information that is either being worked on or has been postulated through free choice on this planet. That is the guideline of channelling. We can't give it to you. You've got to develop it yourself. However, we can put you in an energy that has a faster discovery potential - that is to say, discoveries become more obvious.

Alzheimer's is heart breaking. There are millions on this planet who develop this condition, more all the time. You're living longer and a plaque-like material that literally obfuscates your memory within the brain is becoming more common. It clings to certain parts of your brain, encrusting and restricting it, imprisoning the Human's ability to remember and eventually process information at all. The result is death, slow death. It's caused by your environment, a fact which will be discovered eventually. Your long-lived Ancients didn't have it.

It's going to be cured with physics. Your science is starting to find out that the plaque-like substance has a resonance that allows it to be weakened with sound. High-frequency sound, tuned to a certain frequency and amplitude, will cause the sheaths to weaken, dissolve, and come off. There's a lot of research to do yet, but it's a Eureka! moment - realizing that physics alone, without chemistry, can change the structure of biology. This is with no side effects whatsoever. It's coming, it's coming.

There are those working with fresh umbilical cord stem cells right now who are using pure physics to guide the stem cells to a specific destination in the body in order to repair failing systems. Dear ones, the future of health and healing is not through better chemistry, yet medicine is still waiting for better pills! Did you connect the dots and realize that all biology is physics based? There is magnetics, leverage, the energy of consciousness, electricity and much more within cellular structure. With physics alone, you can "tune in" to disease and destroy it! You can fine-tune your system with cooperative resonances and extend life with benevolent, physical assistance. Sixteen years ago, I told you this when I spoke of the Temple of Rejuvenation. I described the super-cooling needed to do it and the temperatures needed to work with it (-55C). This is physics!

Now, the false expectation of greater chemistry for the future is totally caused from the filter of knowledge. What you have and know then gives you your expectation of what is going to take place. It literally blocks you from seeing some of the potentials that you may have. ….”

Question (2004): Dearest Kryon: I've read the question and answer on people with diseases of the mind - for example, Alzheimers and dementia. But I have more questions. You say that people have chosen this path and that the lessons are for us. As I work with these people, I'm wondering if there is any stage where there could be a reversal of the condition, and if so, with what methods? The people in the hostel are so drugged up, and there's a mind-set with the authorities that no "alternate" therapies work - although they're using colored lights. (Sadly, the diversional therapist told me she doesn't know what color therapy is.)

From a spiritual point of view, what is the best way to work with these people - talk to them as though they were normal, or go along with their imaginings? I've been told that they need to be kept quiet, especially toward evening. However, I've found that with one woman who mostly paces saying very little, the more childlike I am (dancing and singing makes her happy), the more she talks. I could go on and on - could you please enlighten me further?

Answer: I will answer the second part first. Love those who are in this condition. Find out what makes them smile... and then make them smile. The best you can do in a facilitation of this condition is to somehow create joy. Even in their confusion they can laugh at situations and be creative. They'll also remember you better as the one who creates this emotion. Each is very different, but in general, try to find their "happy" button and push it as often as you can. They will remember that.

Right now you're perched upon some important discoveries that will be able to reverse these conditions to a large degree. But just as the paraplegic who regains their nerve connections must than relearn how to walk, suffering much pain, there will be this attribute with a regeneration of the mind. Even if new cells are created, they won't necessarily have the old memories, but they can be trained to be healthy and be ready for new memories.

So someday these will have the ability to halt the progress of the degeneration of cells that are being taken, and instead grow new pathways around them. Some will be able to "reconnect" to certain kinds of memories (like recognition) but will have to relearn what the association of recognition actually means. So history and events might have to be studied and relearned... sometimes even things like reading, also. The pain will be that the individual will regain mental health and will realize exactly what has happened.

Your stem-cell research is very important, and you're reaching a point where you'll be able to use birth cells that aren't embryonic, but every bit as potent for research... thereby sidestepping all moral issues. Look for this in the next few years.

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Robots play soccer as young participants look on at the World Robotics Olympiad being held in Costa Rica (AFP Photo/Ezequiel BECERRA)

San José
(AFP) - The World Robotics Olympiad, being held in Costa Rica this weekend,
shows human athletes still have little to worry about: sweat and glory do not
compute well when relegated to faceless automatons.

But the
same may not be true for workers, especially those in menial or transport
activities where robots are steadily taking over. Think factory assemblers and
sorters, or even self-driving cars.

Some of the
technology behind the robot revolution could be seen in the Olympiad, which
gathered more than 2,500 people from more than 60 countries in a vast hall on
the outskirts of Costa Rica's capital San Jose -- the first time the event, now
in its 14th year, has been held in the Americas.

Pint-sized
robots packed with sensors and rolling on plastic wheels showed their football
skills by battling rivals on miniature soccer fields.

Others
rolled across tables seeking out blocks of certain colors and sizes to grab and
place within demarcated zones.

It was all
more than child's play for the contestants representing their countries, aged
from six to adult.

"It’s
so difficult," said Hassan Abdelrahem Alqadi, 17, from the United Arab
Emirates.

"We
have to do it in the system and make the robot take the color and go to the
pieces that we want. So it’s very difficult," he said.

The teen,
who hopes to be a mechanical engineer in the oil industry, admitted he had
picked up tips from watching other competitors' practice sessions. He and other
tech-savvy youngsters crowded around dozens of tables -- computers or robots in
their hands -- to observe.

Two
participants prepare a miniature robot during the World Robot Olympiad under

way in Costa Rica, the first time the event has been held in the Americas (AFP
Photo/

Ezequiel BECERRA)

Environmental theme

At one
table, a group of Australian teens fine-tuned their contraptions trying to win
possession of a palm-sized transparent "soccer" ball containing a
sensor. The robots were able to detect the ball, grab it while fending off
rivals, and protect the goal area.

Being at
the Olympiad, surrounded by equally bright peers from around the world, was
eye-opening for the teens.

"We’ve
never been to an international competition before, so it’s a new experience. I
can really only compare it to the competitions we’ve had in Australia — in
Australia we've done pretty well," said Tiernan Martin, 13.

The
competition over the weekend was being judged in several age categories, as
well as in the football, university and open tournaments.

This year,
the environment was the overriding theme -- an area in which Costa Rica is at
the forefront.

Thus,
robots had to show their usefulness in sustainable tourism (identifying
protected areas), carbon neutrality (planting trees), and clean energy (seeking
out the best places to set up wind turbines).

with
AFP during the World Robotics Olympiad being held in her country (AFP
Photo/

Ezequiel BECERRA)

Robots
'help humanity'

Costa
Rica's science and technology minister, Carolina Vasquez Soto, told AFP her
country won the right to host the Olympiad -- hitherto held mostly in Asia --
"for the participation we've had in sustainability, because we are
contributing to that with more and bigger resources."

On the
larger question of what robots, and the associated field of artificial
intelligence, now represent for human workers, the national organizer for the
World Robotics Olympiad, Alejandra Sanchez, was upbeat.

While some
see robots as a threat to jobs, she said she saw them as an opportunity.

"I
think it's really good. It's good they replace human beings in some tasks. But
we are not being discarded -- we're changing the functions for human
beings," she said.

"Before,
a human being was the one painting cars, for example. Now we have a robot
painting vehicles and a human being controlling the robot.... So, it's a
personal opinion, but I believe robots are here to stay, and here to help
humanity."

INTERNET / CYBERSPACE

"... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

"... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when "everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy." For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history? ..."Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)